Thumper or Pumphandle

[Yooperdad]

Anyone running a thumper rod with wire off a Church Board?

Thanks,

[Priority1]

This guy runs them a lot.

http://www.williebeecharters.com

[spoonfed]

We run them off of our outriggers, i dont think you could run them on boards, but ive never tried

[Yooperdad]

Going to get out to Fairport this weekend, so will give it a try on the in lines.

I see williebee and others run them from planer boards and outriggers, as well as down the chute, but have seen no mention of using in line boards. I suspect there is a message there, but will try and learn for myself.

Thanks for the responses as usual.

[Willie Bee]

running a pump off of a inline can be done with the smaller weights, the 10-12oz would be all they would hold up, but fighting the fish gets messy with the board diving and the ball usually doesn't let it layback to reel in very easy.

[Yooperdad]

Your response was right on Cpt Kieth. A 1# ball 150 back ran the board about 3/4 submerged and slightly to the side of the boat. No takers so didn't get to experience having the board dive with the extra weight:(

10 color produced the best by far, but the fishing at Fairport is not even close to peak yet.

[A-Fishy-Anado]

Hey Mike

Can you post your results from fairport?